{"id":219,"date":"2011-04-10T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=219"},"modified":"2011-04-10T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T10:30:00","slug":"a-new-poem-from-tony-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/a-new-poem-from-tony-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"A new poem from Tony Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of us<\/span>

Those of us who were out <\/span>
last night <\/span>
planting beans in the sun<\/span>

who were woken by a seabird<\/span>
drumming on the roof of the cabin<\/span>
and found the pitch of the boat <\/span>
had loosened while we were asleep,<\/span>

those whose hands remember <\/span>
the warmth of an egg<\/span>
before it cooled<\/span>

have woken to find the morning <\/span>
dark with rain.<\/span>

How we turn from the window <\/span>
to keep our minds from the rain<\/span>
distrusting even<\/span>
the brightness that will follow.<\/span>




*Tony Williams<\/span>\u2019s first poetry collection, The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street<\/a> <\/span>(Salt, 2009), was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Portico Prize for Literature. Sean O\u2019Brien, writing in Poetry Review, said that \u201cTo read Williams\u2019s work is to be convinced afresh that this is an exciting time for poetry\u201d. He teaches creative writing at Northumbria University and is currently working on a book of very short stories and a second book of poems.<\/span>

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